Browsing: Opinion

by Gugu Lourie The stage to do battle for a connected user is being laid by tech firms – Comsol,…

by Ylva Rodny-Gumede The year 2016 will go down in history as the year in which fake news really took centre…

by Dominique Collett, head of AlphaCode, a Rand Merchant Investments club for fintech startup entrepreneurs From digital banks to mobile-payment…

by Megan Willis We live in an age where most of us have an online presence. Many of us have numerous…

by Brooks Marmon Donald Trump’s bleak inauguration speech has attracted attention for, among other things, employing the phrase “America first”. The…

by Marietjie Theron-Wepener Ford South Africa has suffered huge damage to its reputation thanks to its poor handling of a crisis…

by Craig Heckrath, product development manager at Intervate Many of us have experienced the simplicity and convenience of hailing an…

by Fraser Allison If unexpected packages start showing up at your door, you might want to have a word with one…

by Pat McConnell Consider, for a moment, these two statements from the “Ultimate Guide to Understanding Blockchain Smart Contracts” on a…

by Peter Buwert The American street artist Shepard Fairey created a poster for Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign. It was 2008…

by Peter Lucas In the early 21st century, Western-style freedoms are often presented as an ideal template for the rest of…

by Kyle Rozendo, CTO at SID, who puts forward nine simple ways to make sweeping changes to e-commerce website performance. Global…

by Brett Parker, managing director  at SAP Africa “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished,” said the wise Benjamin Franklin. But…

by Tolullah Oni Science needs more “academic hybrids”: scientists who buck the stereotype of working in silos. This way of thinking…

by Willice O. Obonyo I grew up in a Kenyan village with dark skies and vivid stars. We admired the…

by Kostadin Kushlev Imagine you are visiting a new city and get lost on your way to that famous must-see…

by Craig Blewett “Speak your mind” and “post your mind” are not the same thing. A study that investigated how messages…

by Vybarr Cregan-Reid If the statistics are correct, many millions of new runners have laced up for the first time in…

By Christian Mattmann In today’s data-rich world, companies, governments and individuals want to analyze anything and everything they can get their…

If you are one of the majority of people who make New Year’s resolutions, you are also very likely to…

Imagine, for a moment, the technology of 2017 had existed on Jan. 11, 1964 – the day Luther Terry, surgeon…

The internet may be the most comprehensive source of information ever created but it’s also the biggest distraction. Set out…

By Sonia Livingstone and Mariya Stoilova The internet has reached almost every corner of the globe, but most research on how it…

In 2016, self-driving cars went mainstream. Uber’s autonomous vehicles became ubiquitous in neighborhoods where I live in Pittsburgh, and briefly…

Deterrence focuses on making potential adversaries think twice about attacking, forcing them to consider the costs of doing so, as well as the consequences that might come from a counterattack.